In April 2024, a video appeared in the media and social networks, on which the death of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces is allegedly captured. The record shows that the soldier exploded, throwing a grenade next to him from the drone. We checked the reliability of the viral video.
Among the others, the video was published in the Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru"(148,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), accompanying the record with such a comment:“ Ukrainian militants have recently demonstrated simply enchanting craving for self -sleeping. For example, this UAV operator (unmanned aerial vehicle. - Approx. "Checked") decided to practice with discharges directly in the location. According to a happy coincidence, the grenade turned out to be fighting. " With similar signatures, the same video published channels "Sanya in Florida"(489,000 views),"Gasparyan"(70,000) and"Russian Tarantas"(55 000). Similar posts have become popular on "Picabu",VKontakte"And social networks X, where the recordings in foreign languages were most widely dispersed. So, only two tweets on English And Arabic They scored 639,000 and 1 million views, respectively.
Among the media about the staff of the alleged self -separation of the Ukrainian soldier they wrote "Public news service" And "Russian newspaper". The publication of the official printing authority of the Government of the Russian Federation specifies: “Apparently, a relaxed state played a cruel joke with the operator. At some point, he was discharged grenade, which was equipped with a drone. Judging by the powerful explosion, it is unlikely that the fighter survived. ”
On the 11-second video, a man lying on the floor is captured, who holds a drone control panel in his hands. From the details that are notable on the record (leaflets hanging on the wall with the image of the flag of Ukraine, as well as camouflage pants and other noticeable elements of uniforms), the authors of viral posts conclude that this is an UAV operator from among the Ukrainian military. In the upper part of the video, the drone, which was hanging in the air, which at the 00:07 dumps a grenade - it falls exactly into the helmet lying under the drone. After three seconds, an explosion allegedly occurs. In the background, it sounds Remix The authorship of Jaxomy and Agatino Romero for the Pedro song.
“Verified” tried to determine the source of the viral video. In all this analysis mentioned at the beginning of this parsing, there is a TEELGRAM channel TELEGRAM channel "Troika", Where the post was published on April 18, 2024 at 15:08 Moscow time and scored almost 117,000 views. However, we were able to find an earlier entry in the channel "Talipov Online”(69,000 views) - there the video was placed on the same day at 10:40. This version is also imposed on the channel logo, which is absent in the “Troika” video. This suggests that the video had at least two sources of distribution. Moreover, and "Troika", And "Talipov Online"Previously mentioned in the analysis of" verified "in connection with the publication of fake videos.
Our colleagues from the Stopfake project Studied The recording of the alleged undermining found signs of installation in it: “The fact is that in the video the moment of detonation is not visible. A frame with an explosion appears sharply and immediately blocks what was happening in the frame. ”
It turned out that the viral video has a popular effect on social networks, which is called on Instagram* Explosion ("Explosion"). A lot of such videos with a hashtag #Explosionprank can be found in Tiktokwhere in 2022 users laid out draws With explosions.
A full video halter with the same explosion (the video is rotated by 90 °) can be found on YouTube.
Since neither “verified” nor Stopfake could determine where the original video was taken from, it is not known who and for what purpose was mounted by the video, adding the effect of the explosion. This could be done as the author of the source entry, which posted it in edited form as part of a flash mob popular in social networks, or unknown fabricated the video in order to spread misinformation. Russian edition Avia.pro while Put out Your version, not giving any evidence. “Later it turned out that the personnel were mounted by the Ukrainian military themselves in order to create misinformation and distributed through social networks and messengers, but the purpose of this is still unknown,” the site says. In any case, whoever mounted the viral video, the death of the Dron operator is not shown on it.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked" / social networks
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